Shortlived

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/09/2014

After two months of speculation about when the India Today masthead would change to reflect Shekhar Gupta's takeover there, it turns out it won't. Proprietor Aroon Purie sent around an internal mail which said that that they had agreed to "restructure our arrangement to our mutual benefit". Gupta is being redesignated editorial advisor for the group while Purie will go back to being chief editor. Gupta will pursue his "creative and entrepreneurial interests", Purie said. Gupta tweeted meanwhile that Purie was speaking for both of them. Now what went wrong there?

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.